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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4884820" data-attributes="member: 710">Bigger dice roll certainly don't change anything, but I think in a way, "bigger" enemies (from kobolds to Demons) does. They have an actual story meaning, telling you that you operate on a really different level then earlier. Similar things happen when you move from Magic Missile to Fireball (suddenly you have the option to kill or injure groups of people at once) or when you attain Teleport (you can move anywhere at any time, you don't need to travel there by foot and worry about camping and wandering monsters and getting lost.) Getting the ability to die in combat and return (possibly stronger than before) is also pretty impressive.Higher numbers are just a way to help this effect, in a way. You need those high numbers to fight the Demons and not just be slaughtered by them. If you'd still fight Kobolds that also have higher numbers, they have no meaning.The equivalent for this in a game like Traveller might be something like not steering one space ship but from comandeering a large number of merchant and possibly military vessels, from dealing with local traders with the producers themselves, from fighting off pirates to engaging hostile governments in possibly open warfare, from clearing your name in a city and convincing the police to not arrest you to to establishing yourself as a government advisor and to convince the secret service that you are trustworthy enough to get access to top secret intelligence.Writing about this makes me want to run such a campaign... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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